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THE NASHVILLE COLORING BOOK
Chris Thomas, who runs MADE SOUTH, where they create fun things for people who love the South. A good friend of his is a publisher of coloring books for adults. They had been talking for several months about how great it is that so many adults are turning back to coloring as a way to be creative and relieve stress. All that talk got him thinking " We should create a coloring book!" But what would it be about? A few months ago Chris woke up in the middle of the night and thought "We should make it about Nashville!"
They are creating a coloring book that not only includes classic Nashville staples like the skyline and Broadway, but they also want to highlight some of their favorite music venues, restaurants, places to stay and visit, and illustrated maps of some of Nashville's great neighborhoods. This coloring book is more of a guide to his favorite city, in the form of a fun and interesting coloring book! He needed a great illustrator to help make this idea happen, so he reached out to local artist Caleb Faires. Caleb attended the 2015 MADE SOUTH Holiday Market, and Chris really loved his work. They had coffee and he shared with him the vision for the coloring book that he believed they could create together. His eyes lit up and the ideas started flowing. It was a perfect match made in Nashville!
This 60-page coloring book will be 100% designed, hand-illustrated and printed in Nashville, Tennessee. It will include fun designs that you might not find in your typical coloring book, like a color-by-numbers illustration of the Cantopia Wall at Pinewood Social!
Between their two families, they have 9 children, and coloring is such a fun part of childhood, so they wanted to find a way to have The Nashville Coloring Book benefit the children of Nashville. 100% of the funds raised through Kickstarter will go to produce the first run of books and to fulfill backer rewards. After the books have been published and all rewards have been fulfilled, $1 from the sale of each book will be donated to Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, a world-class pediatric hospital here in Nashville. If you would like to be a part of helping bring this vision to life click here. You can back it with as little as $1. There is already a great amount of supporters hoping to see this awesome work of art. If you follow @nashvillecoloringbook on Instagram you can see a sneak peak of a few of the pages that will be inside. I love the idea of anything supporting Nashville, children, not to mention being artistic, so I am all about this!!